Building the British Sign Language Corpus

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dc.contributor.authorSchembri, Adam
dc.contributor.authorFenlon, Jordan
dc.contributor.authorRentelis, Ramas
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Sally
dc.contributor.authorCormier, Kearsy
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-01T23:28:03Z
dc.date.available2013-10-01T23:28:03Z
dc.date.issued2013-10
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an overview of the British Sign Language Corpus Project—the first endeavor to create a machine-readable digital corpus of British Sign Language (BSL) collected from deaf signers across the United Kingdom. In the field of sign language studies, it represents a unique combination of methodology from variationist sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Unlike previous large-scale sign language sociolinguistic projects, the dataset is being annotated and tagged using ELAN software, given metadata descriptions, and the video data has been made accessible, with long-term efforts to make the dataset searchable on-line. This means, however, that participants must consent to having the video data of their sign language use made public. This puts at risk the authenticity of the linguistic data collected, as signers may monitor their production more carefully than usual. We discuss our attempt to minimize this problem by creating a dual-access archive.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent19
dc.identifier.citationSchembri, Adam, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Sally Reynolds & Kearsy Cormier. 2013. Building the British Sign Language Corpus. Language Documentation & Conservation. 7: 136-154.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/4592
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subjectBritish Sign Language
dc.subjectCorpus linguistics
dc.subjectSociolinguistics
dc.subjectELAN software
dc.subjectDigital archive
dc.titleBuilding the British Sign Language Corpus
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage154
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage136
prism.volume7

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